Children = Noise = Life. The aversion to it is pathological and endemic in the West.
Amen.
And enough about the perfection somehow inherent to the previous generation of both parents and children. It's so steretypical, it could be scripted. I call it the "both ways in the snow" argument.
If there were no bad parents back then, how did they get together and create the bad parents of today?
And on this board, no less, where there is at least the pretense of being pro-family. There is nothing pro-family about discussing today's parents and young children as though they are second class citizens.